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Virginia General Assembly before the year 2000 rolls around.
The basic test for the party and its candidates for statewide office is whether the right message can be found to attract votes of the suburbanites who delivered the state to Republican presidential candidates in 1.980, 1984, 1988 and to a lesser extent 1992.
I am not suggesting that either Republican or Democratic candidates can ignore either rural or big city residents, but the fact is the big cities are usually friendly territory for Democrats and that rural interests which once dominated state politics must play second fiddle these days.
If you don’t believe it, just look at what’s happening in the legislature. Gun control legislation that
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